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Comment by hexaga

5 days ago

You're a user of jq in the sense of the comment you're replying to, not a developer. The developer is the developer _of jq_, not developers in general.

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fhd2  5 days ago

Yes, that's exactly how I meant it. I might _rarely_ peruse some code if I'm really curious about it, but by and large I just trust the developers of the software I use and don't really care how it works. I care about what it does.

  • agentultra  4 days ago

    As a developer of software I often have to care because it matters and so I read the code.

    Source code is often written for other humans first and foremost.

    • abustamam  4 days ago

      I've had to dig into node modules to try to debug code from a closed source library that we depended on.

      I'd much rather wade through AI slop than minified code, which may have previously been AI slop.

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